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No. The priority is to save lives. Using water to help isolate an area that is used for evacuation is much more important than saving a few houses which are li
by threeseed 3y ago
No. The priority is to save lives.
Using water to help isolate an area that is used for evacuation is much more important than saving a few houses which are likely to be insured and can be simply rebuilt.
- baggy_trough 3y agoThey go together usually.
- dave78 3y agoYour comment seems woefully out of touch given what happened in Hawaii. Water was not denied because "saving lives was more important than saving houses". ~1000 people burned to death and the fire department requested more water to help fight the fire and they were put off for 5 hours, by which time the pipes that could transport the water were ruined.
- wunderland 3y agoHas it really killed that many people? I thought it was only 100+ but maybe the nearly 900 missing person are presumed dead now?
- dave78 3y agoI guess I'm making an assumption that the 850 or so missing people are dead. I don't know that, but unfortunately it seems like a safe assumption. Reporters who have managed to get near the affected area are saying that there are dead bodies lining the streets. I truly hope my assumption is wrong and that those 800 people are safe, but it just doesn't seem likely to me given what we know.
- afgrant 3y agoHouses are tightly coupled to lives. Even if you escape the house, you might not survive the smoke inhalation from the surrounding trees.